Bo Hamburger
Years ago
NBA players' Chinese nicknames
Who is the Stone Budda? Africa's Big Mountain? Little Flying Mouse?
nba.com has the answers to these, and other NBA players' nicknames as they purportedly translate to Chinese (and back to English again).
My favourites: Steve Francis ('Special Rights' - a direct translation of the word 'franchise') and Grant Hill ('Mr Nice').
Link found through reading a good piece here about Steve Nash, which says that he doesn't rate a mention on the Chinese nickname list (but his teammate, 'the French Magician', does).
Article also drops another interesting info nugget: one-third of all hits on nba.com are from Chinese interwebbers.